Professor Antonio Loprieno has been chosen by the delegates of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences to be their new President. An Egyptologist and a former Rector of the University of Basel, he will assume his new position on 1 May 2018.
Professor Michael N. Hall from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel receives the Lasker Basic Medical Research Award 2017 – one of the most distinguished honors in biomedical research.
Yesterday, the University of Basel awarded this year's Teaching Excellence Awards to honor lecturers and staff for their contribution to teaching.
Basel chemist Thomas Ward, Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry at the University of Basel and Director of the NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering, is the Royal Society of Chemistry Bioinorganic Chemistry Award winner for 2017.
Prof. Richard Neher, who was just recently appointed to the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, is the joint winner of the Open Science Prize, together with Prof. Trevor Bedford of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. The two scientists have been awarded the prize for their open access online tool “nextstrain.org”, which allows the real-time tracking of the evolution and spread of dangerous pathogens, such as Ebola or Zika.
On February 8th, 2017, the American National Foundation for Cancer Research announced that Michael N. Hall, Professor of Biochemistry at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, has been selected as the winner of the 2017 Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research. The award recognizes his groundbreaking discovery of the protein kinase TOR – target of rapamycin – and its role in cell growth control and carcinogenesis.
Philip Tovote from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) and Maria Soledad Esposito from the Biozentrum of the University of Basel and from FMI were awarded the Pfizer Research Prize 2017. The two scientists reported in the journal Nature on how neuronal circuits are involved in the behavioral response to fear.
The 2017 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine is awarded to Silvia Arber, Professor of Neurobiology at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, and senior group leader at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel, and to the immunologist Caetano Reis e Sousa, senior group leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London.
Professor Daniel Loss from the University of Basel’s Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute has been awarded the King Faisal International Prize for Science 2017. The King Faisal Foundation awarded Loss the renowned science prize for his discovery of a concept for development of a quantum computer based on the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons.